{"id":7,"date":"2025-12-15T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonuniversity.news\/healthcarevisuals\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:15:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bostonuniversity.news\/healthcarevisuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/bostonuniversity.news\/healthcarevisuals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/visuals-2.jpg&#8221; parallax=&#8221;on&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Opening Paragraph&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.82)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;30px|30px|30px|30px|false|false&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|10px|10px|10px|10px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Though the United States has the largest immigrant population globally, language barriers remain a critical issue in the medical field. The language gap leads to worse clinical outcomes for this vulnerable population, particularly with behavioral health services, which immigrants and refugees often seek due to inevitable trauma and stress. However, language and cultural barriers in the mental health care field cause care and treatments to be challenging for providers, who must communicate with sensitivity, and for patients, who must understand their conditions and treatments.<\/p>\n<p>This website advocates for graphics\u2014drawing from information graphics and graphic medicine\u2014as a practical knowledge translation (KT) tool to address these challenges. 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